This amusingly illustrated book/CD pack is for all beginning wind players who want to swing right away! Includes 18 selections to encourage listening and reading. The melody is played on the CD, then repeated with an excellent rhythm section back up. Examples are given to help students create their own solos, and a lead sheet is included with chords for guitar, piano or keyboard for that first jazz experience. Makes music fun in formal lessons, at home, or even in performances. New product for the week of October 08, 2012.

This amusingly illustrated book/CD pack is for all beginning wind players who want to swing right away! Includes 18 selections to encourage listening and reading. The melody is played on the CD, then repeated with an excellent rhythm section back up. Examples are given to help students create their own solos, and a lead sheet is included with chords for guitar, piano or keyboard for that first jazz experience. Makes music fun in formal lessons, at home, or even in performances. New product for the week of October 08, 2012.

For use with all Bb, Eb, C and bass clef instruments, the Jazz Play-Along Series is the ultiimate learning tool for all jazz musicians. With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues and other split-track choices on the included CD, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. FOR STUDY, each tune includes a split track with:

If you want to work on your trumpet chops, this is the book for you! These 75 exercises will help you build your endurance and flexibility, challenging you in fun, interesting and methodical ways. Topics covered include: articulation; dynamics; range; breath management; finger & lip flexibility; double & triple tonguing; scales; arpeggios; and more! New product for the week of Sept 10th, 2012.

Cover feature story on legendary bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan. Plus Johnny Winter, Herb Ellis, Brent MAson, Guthrie Govan, and over 80 minutes of video lessons and jam tracks on the included CD. New product for the week of October 1st, 2012.

Here are 10 hit songs tabbed for beginning guitarists to play while they are working through the Hal Leonard Guitar Tab Method, or any other guitar method. The songs are all on facing pages for no page turns, and the CD features both examples of how the guitar should sound, and full-band backing tracks so students can play the lead! Songs: Born under a Bad Sign

Learn the fine art of lead guitar soloing from the ground up with Lead Guitar Secrets. This well-paced, methodical workbook focuses on the essential components of great guitar solos without the typical deluge of dry music theory instruction. You'll get hands-on training with: an 80-track audio CD featuring many play-along backing tracks for soloing practice; an organized, logical apporach that takes you from basic melodic soloing over one chord to more advanced concepts with common chord progressions; a breakdown of the core fretboard scale patterns and how to effectively connect them up and down the neck; rhythmic phrasing and articulation techniques such as bending, vibrato & legato; tools and concepts that provide a solid foundation in improvisation; invaluable skills that are useful in all music genres; and more! Perfect for getting started with lead guitar or expanding one's existing soloing capabilities. The seasoned player could also gain a fresh perspective via the practical and systematic methodology, possibly unlocking some previously overlooked Lead Guitar Secrets. New product for the week of September 3rd, 2012. Includes "tab" tablature notation.

Learn to play djembe! This hands-on workshop will help you produce a good sound, develop a healthy playing technique, and learn the essential concepts and rhythms of West African djembe drumming. Extensive play-along tracks help you practice every technique in the context of a traditional African djembe ensemble. You will learn: correct, effective djembe playing technique and posture; the three fundamental sounds on the djembe - bass, slap, and tone; exercises and play-along tracks to help you develop good tone and facility, and to memorize essential rhythms and their variations; traditional djembe rhythms and how they fit into a traditional African djembe ensemble; techniques for soloing; history and traditional, cultural context of the djembe; how to tune, maintain, and care for your djembe. The disc includes a printable PDF file with drum notation and exercises. 1 hr., 36 min. New product for the week of September 3rd, 2012.Return Policy Exception: This product can not be returned if opened but it can be exchanged if defective, for the exact same title.

No music reading is required for this book/DVD pack! The book covers topics such as: two-beat shuffle, box shuffle, linear boogie woogie, round boogie woogie, Yancy/Domino-inspired groove, and New Orleans-inspired groove. The intimate instructional DVD features Ann Rabson teaching her own brand of blues and barrelhouse piano with six in-depth lessons based on left-hand grooves. Along with these grooves you'll learn tasty fills, turnarounds, soloing ideas, and much more. New product for the week of Sept 10th, 2012.

Twenty full songs with piano arrangements, guitar chords and lyrics are included, each with performance notes detailing the wheres, whats, and hows - all in plain English! Learn about the song, then play along with the professionally recorded CD! There are two tracks for each, a performance track for listening and study, plus a separate backing track that lets you be the soloist. Includes: Don't Be Cruel (To a Heart That's True)